Mageia 4 Installation Mageia 4 Installation This presentation is about Mageia 4 installation from Mageia- 4-LiveDVD-GNOME-i586-DVD.iso. The installation was made by using Virtual Box. Extra attention required for installing Mageia 4 on a real computer using this presentation. Installation process may be different on different computers. All screenshots used in this presentation are on flickr. P.S. UEFI boot isn't covered in this presentation.
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Mageia 4 InstallationMageia 4 Installation
This presentation is about Mageia 4 installation from Mageia-4-LiveDVD-GNOME-i586-DVD.iso.
The installation was made by using Virtual Box. Extra attention required for installing Mageia 4 on a real computer using this presentation.
Installation process may be different on different computers.
All screenshots used in this presentation are on flickr.
P.S. UEFI boot isn't covered in this presentation.
● Partition resize default window is set for existing partition size – 8188MB (7.9GB, see slide 9) in our case.
● We need to make it smaller and create 6GB empty space for Mageia installation (check slide 5 for Mageia installation size suggestion).
Mageia 4 installation: resize partition to custom Mageia 4 installation: resize partition to custom sizesize
● When we move slider to left we create empty space.
● Pay attention! Mageia doesn't calculate the size we are emptying so we have to make sure it's 6GB big or bigger.
● Our presentation empty space will be 6822MB (8188 [original size, see previous slide] - 1366 [current slider position] = 6822). 6822MB is 6.6GB, see slide 14).
Mageia 4 installation: Windows filesystem checks Mageia 4 installation: Windows filesystem checks warningwarning
● After we click OK on previous slide, there is “Windows filesystem checks warning”.
● Finally, we've resized Windows partition to 1.3GB and created Empty space.
● If there is any concern about Windows partition size, see slide 44 for some information.
Mageia 4 installation: empty spaceMageia 4 installation: empty space
● Click on empty space gives some information about it and an option to create a new partition by clicking Create.
Mageia 4 installation: create new partition defaultMageia 4 installation: create new partition default
● Default create screen is set for Default create screen is set for partition size and filesystem partition size and filesystem type. It gives some suggestive type. It gives some suggestive number (647MB here) for number (647MB here) for partition creation.partition creation.
● For our installation, we want to For our installation, we want to create single partition create single partition occupying all empty space with occupying all empty space with ext4 filesystem type. ext4 filesystem type.
Mageia 4 installation: create new custom partitionMageia 4 installation: create new custom partition
● We increased partition size to maximum (6832MB) and left default filesystem type (ext4) unchanged.
● Pay attention! For some reason we created 6822MB empty space (see slide 12) and here it is 6832MB big.
● How to choose different filesystem type - see slide 45.
Mageia 4 installation: new partition mounting pointMageia 4 installation: new partition mounting point
● Click on Mount point bar gives an options to select mount point.
● For this presentation we choose to mount new partition as root (/).
Mageia 4 installation: create new partition Mageia 4 installation: create new partition finalizingfinalizing
● Now we are ready to create a new partition with ext4 filesystem type and mount it as root (/).
Mageia 4 installation: new partition createdMageia 4 installation: new partition created
● Clicking OK on previous slide creates new partition sda5 with ext4 filesystem type, mounted as root (/), and not formatted.
● Clicking Done will give us final warning.
Mageia 4 installation: final warningMageia 4 installation: final warning
● Pay attention! It is still possible to quit installation. Everything we've done so far will return back to original state (see slide 5).
● Clicking OK will change disk structure irreversibly and start installation process.
Mageia 4 installation: no swap warningMageia 4 installation: no swap warning
● Our Mandriva installation doesn't use swap partition.
● It's possible disregard this warning by clicking Next.
● P.S. Anyone interested in swap creation may watch our presentation Mageia1 GNOME installation.
● Mageia installation screen runs all the time while installation is running.
● Empty bar at the bottom fills with blue color to show installation progress.
Mageia 4 installation: back to live DVDMageia 4 installation: back to live DVD
● Installation may run so long that live DVD could turn on “screensaver”. Instead of having installation image (see previous slide) we may see image similar to one on right.
● We need to press a keyboard key to return back to running process.
Those attachments are created for this presentations only.
They may give a little bit better descriptions of some processes described before.
Mageia 4: disk structure exampleMageia 4: disk structure example
● This disk has 1TB size.
● It has Windows and a few Linux OSs installed on regular partitions.
● There are several more LVM partitions (Stable, Testing, ISO, and backup) created for different reasons.
● Two additional disks connected to computer are sdb and sdg.
Mageia 4 Installation: Windows partition concernsMageia 4 Installation: Windows partition concerns
This presentation is about Mageia installation. 6GB space is required to install Mageia and we created it.
When we create empty space (see slide 14) Windows space is reduced to 1.3GB. We can't install or run Windows on such small partition. However, if we have 8GB big disk with Windows installed there and we want to install Mageia Linux OS on the same disk, the disk is two small to have them both at the same time.
On a real computer, we just create 6GB empty space for Mageia installation.
Mageia 4 installation: choosing filesystem type
● Click on Filesystem type bar let us select filesystem type we want.
● This image shows a dozen of available options.
● We have ext4 filesystem type as default and we left it unchanged (see slide 17).